Featured talk by Graham Harman (American University, Cairo, Egypt), with response from Patricia Clough (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY), and closing remarks from Nicola Masciandaro (Brooklyn College, CUNY), at Speculative Medievalisms 2: A Laboratory-Atelier, held at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, on 16 September 2011 (organized and sponsored by the BABEL Working Group, the Petropunk Collective, and the Doctoral Program in English and Medieval Studies @The Graduate Center, CUNY). More information available here: http://speculativemedievalisms.blogspot.com/.